PHOENIX — Here’s some paradoxical food for thought. Despite terrible shooting and the lack of a potent scoring threat on the roster, the Phoenix Suns have produced the game’s leading scorer in four of the first five contests.
Only Russell Westbrook’s 18 points in Phoenix’s loss to the Thunder has led the top Suns’ scorer. And [...]

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PHOENIX — Timing is everything in basketball. Cut or screen too soon or too late, and the offensive play crumbles.
The Phoenix Suns, like every other NBA team, haven’t had much practice time — not even casual pick-up games — to construct well-timed execution, and that had a great deal of impact in their season opening [...]

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New Orleans Hornets 85, Phoenix Suns 84
The New Orleans Hornets could be battling this season just to keep their heads above water and out of the cellar in the Western Conference.
But even after the Chris Paul trade rocked the roster from the year prior, the Hornets don’t think they should be counted out, and they’ll get [...]

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Last month I discussed Ian Levy’s findings on which coaches are most effective at doling out minutes, in which Alvin Gentry was ranked the sixth-most effective coach of the 45 analyzed.
Levy re-calibrated his approach ”to create a method that compares the talent level of a roster to the quantity of time that a coach was able to get that [...]

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Some years it seems like a coach or manager has the Midas Touch, whereby every player they put in the game produces at a high level.
Other times a coach establishes roles to the extent you know exactly what point in the game is occurring based on the players on the floor.
And still other times it [...]

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With a record 11 championships to his credit, it’s easy to argue that Phil Jackson is the greatest coach in NBA history.
Then again it would be hard not to rack up the rings coaching Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and Pau Gasol.
That’s not to take away from Jackson’s greatness as a coach [...]

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